Topic: Tiger Woods
LONDON (Reuters) - There will be a huge depth of golfing knowledge amid the galleries of Royal St George's this week but even the keenest statistician might be hard pressed to name the winners of the last 11 major championships.What makes it ...
Jack Nicklaus was the runaway winner of a readers' poll in Golf Monthly magazine to find the greatest player of the last 100 years.Nicklaus, whose 18 major titles are a record, won 58 percent of the votes from a list of 20 ...
Tom Watson fears fellow American golf great Tiger Woods may not be the same player ever again if his compatriot is forced into replacement knee surgery.Watson was speaking two days out from the start of the British Open -- an event he ...
Injured 14-time major champion Tiger Woods announced on Tuesday that he was pulling out of next week's British Open, casting further doubt on whether he will ever recover his form of old."Unfortunately, I've been advised that I should not play in the ...
Injured 14-time major champion Tiger Woods said Tuesday he remains uncertain if he will play at the British Open in two weeks and has no timetable for his recovery.Woods, chasing the all-time record 18 majors won by Jack Nicklaus, will not play ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tiger Woods withdrew from his own event, the AT&T National Tournament, on doctor's orders on Wednesday, saying he was still not fully recovered from knee and ankle injuries.Woods, who has not played since pulling out of the Players' ...
Rory McIlroy's youthful charm and overpowering form created a win for the ages at the US Open, personality and performance mixing in a way unseen since an exhuberant 21-year-old Tiger Woods won his first major at the 1997 Masters.After the infamous Woods ...
BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - While the European Tour celebrated its fifth successive major champion after Rory McIlroy's astonishing eight-shot victory at the U.S. Open, American golf grappled with an unprecedented title drought.For the first time since the Masters was launched in 1934, ...
For those in the know from his earliest years in Holywood outside Belfast, it was just a matter of time before Rory McIlroy joined the ranks of major winners in golf.Like Tiger Woods, he was a child prodigy.Young McIlroy hit a 40-yard ...
BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - Rory McIlroy has realized one of his dreams with a record-shattering romp to victory at the U.S. Open Sunday for his first major title but the 22-year-old now yearns to test himself against his golf idol, Tiger Woods."When ...